Power Company: Weber Group, LLC

When brothers Tom and Donny Weber started a design-build
firm in 1983, they never anticipated the effect they would
have on the aquatics industry.

Today, Weber Group works with just about all of the
major amusement park operators, and they’re
bringing what they’ve learned about brand building
to the aquatics industry. Signature aquatic projects
include work at virtually all of the Six Flags parks,
Dollywood Splash Country Great Wolf Lodge CoCo Key Water
Resorts and Zoombezi Bay at the Columbus Zoo in Columbus,
Ohio.

With a background in architecture and construction, the
Webers didn’t even establish a business connection
with the amusement/recreation market until 1990, when they
developed a relationship with an owner of Old Kentucky
Kingdom amusement park. Donny met the owner’s
wife, a fellow member of the board of the local YMCA. When
Old Kentucky Kingdom became Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom,
Weber Group established a relationship with Six Flags and
went on to do a number of projects for that organization.
It was through that work that the Webers developed their
company’s signature formula of branding through
construction and design.

“We’re architects first, so we
understand how theming fits in,” Donny says. The
idea is to take time and space and create a sense of place
and occasion.